The Ten-Cent Plague
Subtitle: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: March 18, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780374187675
Subjects: Popular Culture; Comics & Graphic Novels; Literature - Classics / Criticism; History: World; History & Criticism; Popular Culture - General; Social Science / Popular Culture; 20th century; Comic books, strips, etc; History; Social aspects; United States
First sentence: Sawgrass Village, a tidy development about twenty-five miles east of Jacksonville, Florida, is named for the wild marsh greenery that its turf lawns displaced.
Description: An informal and personal description of the rise and fall of comic books in the '40s and '50s, with a focus on the Educational Comics (E.C.) company run by Gains,  father then son (M.C. then William).  The fall came in two steps, the first in the '40s and aimed at crime comics, and the second in the '50s and aimed at almost all comics, but with emphasis on horror comics.
Table of contents: title: Prologue
pagenum: 3; title: Society Iss Nix
pagenum: 9; title: It Was Work
pagenum: 32; title: Crime Pays
pagenum: 53; title: Youth in Crisis
pagenum: 71; title: Puddles of Blood
pagenum: 92; title: Then Let Us Commit Them
pagenum: 112; title: Woofer and Tweeter
pagenum: 132; title: Love...LOVE...LOVE!!
pagenum: 154; title: New Trend
pagenum: 175; title: Humor in a Jugular Vein
pagenum: 193; title: Panic
pagenum: 209; title: The Triumph of Dr. Payn
pagenum: 228; title: What Are We Afraid Of?
pagenum: 245; title: We've Had It!
pagenum: 274; title: Murphy's Law
pagenum: 305; title: Out of the Frying Pan and into the Soup
pagenum: 319; title: Epilogue
pagenum: 331; title: Appendix
pagenum: 337; title: Notes
pagenum: 353; title: Bibliography
pagenum: 407; title: Acknowledgements
pagenum: 413; title: Index
pagenum: 417